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from here to eternity

Empire of the Sun. >>9456535

GR

>>9456487
infinite jest

>>9456487

Sun and Steel, then Confessions of a Mask

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>>9456510
One non-fiction, and a novel. Seems a good combo. Just purchased them from amazon, thanks friend.

Feel free to use this thread to discuss him if anyone wants, I just wanted to order two books by him before I went to bed, which I will now do.

>>9456453
im reading the mahabarata and am going to india soon and have lots of indian coworkers if youd like me to find out

What, you've never heard of Hare Krishna before?

le blue baby religion for tattoo insp

I liked it. Need to reread it again some time.

one of my favorite books of all time. i dont see how its like the great gatsby though.

>>9456399
Comfy. A favorite of William Burroughs. Was it ever made into a movie?

>>9456323
nobody?

>>9456958
>muh dysfunctional Irish family drinks and drugs too much

bit cliched desu

I preferred Iceman Cometh

>>9456993
>muh reductionism

There's nothing /wrong/ with reading for the story, it's just not patrician.

Compare a comfy McChicken Sandwich in terms of sating-your-hunger value to having a multiple course fine dining meal.

It's the whole experience of the thing. If you read (or eat) solely for basic entertainment (trashy no effort nutrition), then fine, judge the best pulp (fast food?) based on story.

Most people (/lit/erati?) pretend to be more discerning in taste.

what if I read for the characters? Is that less pleb?

Because the entire story of any book can be described in 1 minute. It's absolutely minuscule, information-wise, compared to every other part of a book.

Cute!

Bitch u dead

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>>9456344
She will always be our girl.

>>9456279
matsuo basho, chikamatsu monzaemon, ikkyu, chuya nakahara, kenji nakagami

read some major chinese classics in several translations each. i ching, classic of history, analects, and the tao te ching to begin with. they make all subsequent readings of east asian art infinitely richer - it's like reading the iliad, some plato/aristotle, and critical selections from the bible for a student of western art.

if anyone can recommend some good modern histories of the warring states period I'd be extremely happy

The japs never produced any lit worth reading.
But if you wanna waste time don't forget Ranpo and the other Murakami.

lets not

>>9456208

This is actually a great book.

fuck off to /mu/ with this reddit shit

>>9456206
you got memed dude. glad he offed himself. real reddit-tier shit

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Kek.

I always think it's good, but would be way better if they cut some of the bullshit out of it, like toole's agent recommended, which sent him into a suicidal spiral.

hopeful bump

my nick was "vonranke" btw

What was the /lit/ discord again?

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nabokov's own translation, but it isnt as good as original

>>9456146
Oh, I was told always to avoid Nabokov's translations since he tried for literalism over readability or poeticality... I don't know, maybe I'll just go for the Constance Garnett one since it's cheap and in the public domain.

>>9456260
That's only for writers other than himself

>>9456123
was rand autisitic?

>>9456123
In the abstract, being an egoist =/= being an asshole, but Rand's """egoism""" (as elaborated by her throughout her life) is a long way away from the less ideological and more pure egoism you're thinking of. There's a reason people shit on objectivism and Rand without criticizing stirner or nietzsche

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>My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

He'd probably be too busy being tested to discover how he lived so long to read much.

>>9456063

He liked Dostoievsky. Even said that Dostoievsky gave him more than Gauss.

i think he reads mystic poetry being alive today

>We know that most of philosophy boils down to 'just b urself'.
the fuck

>>9456041
Surely most philosophy says you should actively try to change yourself in some way. You could argue that even the stuff that really does say 'just be yourself' ends up doing it.

>>9456136
Even the change is encouraged, it's still constrained within the naturalistic limits of 'what ought to be'. For example, Aristotle wants you to change to fit your natural mold, be that of a ruler or a farmer.